Pentesting, System Hardening & IT Security Blog

Our passion for testing and defending infrastructures, applications and companies often leads us to the point where we want to share our thoughts and experience with the world. Here you can read all about our exploits and research and enjoy our posts, from useful howtos, to published CVEs, management strategies, new exciting tools and much more. As a provider of offensive and defensive IT services, we always welcome readers to reach out to us and ask questions or provide feedback, be it about our blog or our services, which include web-application and network penetration tests, system defense and hardening and management consulting, among others.

During the last weeks before Christmas, I found myself traveling more than usual throughout Germany and Europe. While I was waiting at the airports I recognized some typical behaviors that passengers showed before and after the flight. Before the boarding begins the flight ticket is handled like a p...

Yesterday at around 10:00 pm, I noticed that something was wrong with Steam. The interface suddenly presented itself in different languages and kept switching. I tried to switch back to english but got an error message that something went wrong. A little bit of poking around in the settings showe...